Your mentors

A pitching mentor and a vocal educator, working the same room.

One has spent a decade winning rooms. The other has spent twenty years building voices. Vocal Playground is what happens when they teach together.

Sarah Qian

Sarah Qian

Pitching mentor

Sarah is an eight-time startup pitch competition winner who has secured more than $350,000 in undiluted funding for her startup, Compassion Creamery. She now works as a pitching mentor at Sydney University, UNSW, the Academy of Entrepreneurs, and Quantum Australia.

Pitch competition wins
$350k+
Undiluted funding secured
Mentors at
Sydney University UNSW Academy of Entrepreneurs Quantum Australia
Helen Grimley

Helen Grimley

Vocal educator

Helen is a vocal educator with over 20 years of experience, having helped hundreds of singers and performers find confidence, power, and presence in their voice. She trained at AFTRS and studied under renowned mezzo-soprano Nancy Long.

20+
Years teaching voice
100s
Singers and performers
Trained at
AFTRS Studied under Nancy Long

This workshop treats presence as what it actually is: a physical, learnable skill, not a personality trait.

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